Five global space agencies are preparing landmark missions to explore Venus—Earth's fiery twin—unlocking secrets about its ...

Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, but more might be coming in a few years. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration ...

A NASA spacecraft has captured never-before-seen images of Venus, providing stunning views of the hellishly hot surface of the second rock from the sun. Appearing radiant against the cosmic backdrop, ...

To say that NASA has a lot of big plans for the next 10 years would be an understatement. The space agency is already talking about going back to the Moon. In fact, it has already picked out two ...

NASA scientists have seen direct geological evidence of active volcanism on Venus for the first time ever. The recent volcanic activity was discovered after examining radar images of Earth's twin ...

Parker is attempting to be the closest a human-made object has been to the sun. NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history as ...

A hefty question still puzzles planetary scientists: What happened to Venus? Though Venus and Earth are similarly-sized rocky worlds occupying similar parts of the solar system, Venus is a hellish ...

In Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, the famous words "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" adorn the gates of hell. Interestingly enough, Dante's vision of hell is an apt description of ...

Missy Elliott lyrics blasted off into space as NASA transmitted her song "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" 158 million miles from Earth to Venus, the space agency said Monday. It took nearly 14 minutes for ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A NASA spacecraft has captured stunning new images of the surface of Venus from space. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took its first visible-light images of the planet. Smothered in ...

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